Aligning Incentives For Value-Based Health Care
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Aligning Incentives For Value-Based Health Care var callbackToken='505851158610488'; At the intersection of health, health care, and policy. GO Advanced Search » Health Affairs Follow us RSS Feed Twitter Facebook Audio Email Text Home About Archive Topic Collection Blog Briefs Theme Issues Subscribe Alerts Manage My Account Aligning Incentives For Value-Based Health Care Roch Doliveux UCB, Inc. Brussels, Belgium There is a limit of 300 words for letters to the editor. Health Affairs reserves the right to edit all letters for clarity, length, and tone. Letters can be submitted by e-mail, letters@healthaffairs.org , or the Health Affairs website, http://www.healthaffairs.org . The article by Peter Neumann and coauthors (Dec 2011) concluded that there is a slow uptake of risk-sharing arrangements for new treatments. However, another barrier needs to be highlighted: the misalignment of incentives across stakeholders. Not addressing the systemic incentives that prioritize short-term cost cutting (via rebates and discounts) over improved outcomes ensures that innovative payment arrangements will fall short of their ultimate goal. Purchasers need to act now to address this core issue in health care. A recent survey among US health care stakeholders highlights the misalignment on the definition of value. 1 Sixty-eight percent of physicians noted